Miami, Florida, 1921 – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Miami, Florida, 1921. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Palms and sunshine near Miami, Fla.
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Miami, Florida, 1921
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Miami in 1921 was a young city, barely two decades past its incorporation in 1896, and it was riding the Florida land boom that had pulled in buyers, builders, and speculators from across the country. Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway had reached the Miami River in 1896, and the city's growth depended heavily on that rail line and on the winter tourist trade it brought south. Real estate offices, hotels, and new subdivisions were multiplying along Biscayne Bay, even as the boom was beginning to lose steam by the early 1920s. Residents of the period knew the town as a fast-growing resort and agricultural shipping point, where citrus, vegetables, and tropical produce moved out by rail and boat.
| Created / published | 1921 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fishbaugh, w. a. (william a.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Florida |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,137 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Palms and sunshine near Miami, Fla. |
| Reference | FL Miami 1921 |
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